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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Christmas Cookies, Orange Pomanders and the Scents of Christmas.

Hello sweet Christmas friends! Finally, the Summer vacation has started for my kids (and me!) and we are now counting down to Christmas!

So to make our home merry and bright this year we have making our own decorations.

We made Christmas Cookies

We also made orange and cinnamon decorations.

We dried sliced oranges overnight in the oven (about 75 degrees Celsius or 170 Fahrenheit). The next morning we attached a cinnamon stick to each slice of orange with some twine (I wanted to use raffia but had run out)....and we made Christmas decorations!

We made pomanders with oranges and cloves-they smell wonderful, especially when placed on a platter with some evergreens and tea light candles.

I put the left-over orange slices, cinnamon sticks and cloves and some star anise into my glass candle holders.

The house really smells like Christmas now!

Thank you dear friends for coming to visit today and for Keeping the Christmas spirit Alive, 365!

I am linking this post to my weekly Say G'day saturday Linky Party. If you would like to share a project, recipe, DIY or tutorial please just click the picture to join in!

Best wishes always,

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. W.J. Ronald Tucker

I can just imagine how wonderful your house smells! I love doing all of this too..the first time I stuck cloves into oranges, it nearly kidded my fingers before I was done, now I smartly use a little punch first! ;D

I think I can smell those cookies from here. The little red cookie cutters are exactly like the ones I used as a kid baking with my Mother. I loved the gingerbread boy and the tree the best...oh what sweet memories. Your kids will have many good ones!Enjoy,Mimi

Oh, wow! I had to stop and think for a second when you said your kids were on summer vacation, lol! I have been meaning to pick up some oranges to make pomanders every time I go to the grocery store. You guys did a wonderful job. Between the cookies and the oranges, I bet the house smells great!

Oh these are so beautiful! I am now following you on GFC and have added your button to my blog. Please come on over to the farm when you have time and follow back. I would be most honored if you grabbed my button too.God bless and Merry Christmas.Regina

I can just imagine that wonderful smell inside your home - all the orange slices...and cinnamon! I think the jute works just as nicely as raffia, by the way! LOLThanks for participating in my "Very Merry Christmas Party" !!!

I love Christmas and I love smells. I keep meaning to make my ornaments; now you've inspired me! Thanks -- so glad I happened upon your blog! I'm having a giveaway for a Santa on Christmas Eve - you might want to enter.

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put awaylike bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.The good you do for others is good you do yourself...Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976